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VEGETABLE JUNGLE— The Bachelder’s lush garden gets a look from the Garden Tour crowd Sunday.
If rain is good for a garden then a rainy day is perfect for a garden tour. The Nome Garden Tour marched out into the drizzle to view what’s growing in the gardens of green-thumbed Nomeites. Around...
KILLED— Star, a dog in Mike Owens’ sled dog team, died of massive injuries as a result of unknown persons turning 59 dogs loose from the communal dog lot in Nome in the wee hours of Saturday.
Fifty-nine sled dogs housed at a communal dog yard in Nome were turned loose by unknown persons in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 25. Huskies from three different kennels were...
Selection of a replacement for Nome’s retiring Police Chief John Papasodora is coming to a wrap-up, according to Tom Moran, city manager and top hiring officer. Nome Code of Ordinances hands Moran...
A town hall meeting held Saturday at Old St. Joe’s to discuss ways to improve public safety in Nome raised far more questions than it answered. The meeting was announced on official city letterhead...
GIVING TO SCIENCE—A large Pacific Cod specimen caught just south of Little Diomede Island is being weighed and measured prior to collection of otoliths (ear bones) for determining the age of the fish and its overall condition.
NOAA Fisheries scientists conducting their annual trawl survey of the southern Bering Sea ecosystem survey found unprecedented conditions of warm ocean temperatures and significant changes in the cod...
DEEP WATER PORT—The Coast Guard’s Admiral Karl Schultz, left, Senator Dan Sullivan, and Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer spoke about their visit to Nome in search of a deep water port to serve the Arctic
United States Senator Dan Sullivan accompanied by top brass of both the Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy visited Nome’s port Monday as part of their quest for a deep water port to serve the increasing...
THE RESCUE— Survivors and rescuers of the dramatic air-sea rescue 25 years ago met for dinner Saturday evening in Nome. From left are rescuers Kevin Ahl, Randy Oles, survivor Dave Anderson and rescuers Terry Day, Eric Penttila and Vic Olson.
Twenty-five years ago Monday a daring air-sea rescue saved seven souls from a watery grave off Sledge Island. Their Piper Navajo had run out of gas on a return trip from Lavrentiya, Russia and when...
SAVED—For now. The Nome Common Council has given the owner of the structure on the right until Oct. 15 to achieve a list of work orders to save the solarium and cold storage from abatement.
The Nome Common Council started their session Monday evening with a work session on how to achieve a tax—sales or excise tax—on marijuana, tobacco or booze. They want to tax marijuana to make money...
Port of Nome
A projected 24-month feasibility study on the Port of Nome modification to a deep draft port is underway with a price tag of $2.9 million on the study project to be shared by federal Army Corps of...
NO PEEKING—Josephine Nassuk, left, laughs with Director of Elections Josie Bahnke and Monica Giang, background, while watching her mother, Laura Nassuk, complete a practice ballot during an election worker training session on August 1 in Nome
The Alaska Division of Elections held election worker training workshops in Nome last week. The goal of the two sessions, one on July 31 and another on August 1, was to prepare for Alaska’s primary...

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